Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/books/review/odyssey-homer-emily-wilson-translation.html. Socially and emotional complex beyond my expectations, Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2016. This title will be released on September 19, 2023. Women have long been marginalised in the world of ancient texts, but female scholars and translators are finally having their say, If you look up the subject heading female classicists in the large research library catalogue at the university where I teach, a grand total of five books pop up of which two are separate editions of Its a Dons Life by Mary Beard. There were learned female classicists all over Europe in the early modern period, including several Italian humanists. Whilst I do not dislike this translation I cannot recommend it as enthusiastically as Fitzgerald's translation of the The Aeneid which I urge anyone who enjoys classical literature to read. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of the first great Homeric epic: the Iliad. (review of three separate translations of, This page was last edited on 25 January 2023, at 19:47. Why was tragedy so important for women of this period? These changes seem, at each turn, to ask us to appreciate the gravity of the events that are unfolding, the human cost of differences of mind. In the Odyssey, preoccupations shift, radically. [2] Her sister is the food writer Bee Wilson. Ruden and Carson are able to reimagine English sentences and English poetry through their tense, difficult encounters with Greek and Roman literature. Each worked in a separate room to translate in isolation. The potential shame of pronouncing a French word wrong was pretty inhibiting, Wilson said, laughing. Wilson, whose own translation appears this week, has produced the first English rendering of the poem by a woman. This is what sweetness and light is. Wilson is not persuaded. I have not enjoyed this translation as much, finding aspects of it rather quirky with the use of modern idiom in places and some of the subtleties of the Ancient Greek words and proper names missing . Just the fact of never having a female teacher, but its a difference to how you feel when you dont have any mentors who dont even know what it would be like. Though her education there, she says, offered her a strong introduction to literary study, it wasnt lost on her that none of her professors were women. When the Trojans learn Achilles is not participating in the siege they counterattack. Following a lengthy introduction, she provides a translation of Homer's work in iambic pentameter. I love that about it., Although Wilson was undecided on a direction after taking her undergraduate degree she had thoughts of doing law she ultimately chose to do further studies in English literature at Oxford while she figured her way forward, rereading some of her favorite books, particularly Miltons Paradise Lost. Emerging with a sense that the writers she appreciated most were in dialogue with antiquity, Wilson pursued a Ph.D. in classics and comparative literature at Yale. Its all going to be talked out. Achilles is forced to give Briseis to Agamemnon which leads to Achilles sulking in his tent and refusing to fight. Throughout her translation of the Odyssey, Wilson has made small but, it turns out, radical changes to the way many key scenes of the epic are presented radical in that, in 400 years of versions of the poem, no translator has made the kinds of alterations Wilson has, changes that go to truing a text that, as she says, has through translation accumulated distortions that affect the way even scholars who read Greek discuss the original. A dramatic reading of two early books of the poem, in current in-progress iambic pentameter verse translation, followed by Q and A. Hopscotch Translation Series: Lawrence Venuti in convo w/ Emily Wilson (Philadelphia, PA), Henry Moore Foundation: ORDER Art, Classicism, and Discourse, from 1755 to Today (Leeds, UK), https://complit.sas.upenn.edu/event/professor-emily-wilson-iliad-translation-progress-reading. I had an intense seminar in graduate school on the Odyssey with John Peradotto and at that time, in my early twenties, translating and absorbing an entire book a week was too overwhelming for me. It looks at the way mortality was imagined, in the tragic tradition, by Milton, Shakespeare, Seneca, Sophocles and Euripides. Of the existing translations, it seems to me that none get across to a reader without Greek the open question that, in fact, is the opening question of the Odyssey, one embedded in the fifth word in its first line: What sort of man is Odysseus? He himself is still I believe the longest leader of the Conservative Party, and served as Prime Minister for three terms, and helped see through the Reform Act of 1867. Wilson has emphasized that other female translators of Homer, such as Anne Dacier and Rosa Onesti, made very different interpretative choices from hers. [2], Wilson was "shy but accomplished" in school. He is celebrated for his argument tying the creation of the Greek alphabet to the recording of the Homeric Poems, but is also well known for his textbooks on Greek myth and Greek history and his work on the history of writing. But then she goes on to give us Penelopes ordinary grief: She cried a long, long time, / then spoke again where cried (not wept) and the repeated long evoke Penelopes sobbing as powerfully as any other words could do. Emily Wilson. So it would be GREAT if you can mention the name of the translator in the product description. September brought us Daniel Mendelsohns An Odyssey, his memoir of teaching this poem about fathers and sons to a class at Bard College that included his own father. Both works attributed to Homer - The Iliad and The Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. On the other hand, as Prins says, these plays could be read more than one way. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. [16] In 2019, Wilson was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship for her work bringing classical literature to new audiences. And even though I think translation is a way of being innovative within your field, my colleagues dont see it that way., One way of talking about Wilsons translation of the Odyssey is to say that it makes a sustained campaign against that species of scholarly shortsightedness: finding equivalents in English that allow the terms she is choosing to do the same work as the original words, even if the English words are not, according to a Greek lexicon, correct., What gets us to complicated, Wilson said, returning to her translation of polytropos, is both that I think it has some hint of the original ambivalence and ambiguity, such that its both Why is he complicated? What experiences have formed him? which is a very modern kind of question and hints at There might be a problem with him. I wanted to make it a markedly modern term in a way that much turning obviously doesnt feel modern or like English. There is now a far larger textbook market for classical translations to be read in university courses, which imposes its own constraints on the translator. Wilson did write a range of books before tenure, most on canonical texts: her study of suffering and death in literature; a monograph on Socrates. The play was staged by 19th-century female students keen to show their intellectual worth. I struggle with this all the time, Wilson said. These are not good criteria, Wilson told me. It is an interesting injunction from Odysseus, who himself, during his 10 years of wandering, was serially unfaithful. . It would have been helpful to have notes (as is often the case in such texts). Here is how Wilson renders their undoing: If I was really going to be radical, Wilson told me, returning to the very first line of the poem, I wouldve said, polytropos means straying, and andra man, the poems first word means husband, because in fact andra does also mean husband, and I couldve said, Tell me about a straying husband. And thats a viable translation. Wilson later reflected that she was interested in the ways and methods that Socrates would educate people, but also Socrates' death as an image: "What does it mean to live with so much integrity that you can be absolutely yourself at every moment, even when you've just poisoned yourself? For hundreds of years, the study of ancient Greece and Rome was largely the domain of elite white men and their bored sons. Close to perfect for the first time reader, Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2013. Wilson. Most opt for straightforward assertions of Odysseuss nature, descriptions running from the positive (crafty, sagacious, versatile) to the negative (shifty, restless, cunning). Recent translators have tried to split the difference between Greek and English; Stanley Lombardo, Robert Fagles and Stephen Mitchell all use a looser, longer but still five-beat line. There's a ton of character development and social/interpersonal nuance on every page of the Iliad. In the Iliad, it is Achilles, the greatest of the Greeks, a demigod almost invulnerable to death. All English translators of Homer face a basic problem. Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout. Alexanders Iliad mirrors the length and redundancies of the original, providing a welcome reminder of how distant Homers world is from our own. This is the man whose curved bow will mow down Eurymachus and all the other suitors just a few books later. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2021. His Odyssey was archaic and fragmentary, an artifact forged by firelight and rusted by time. Rather, they were slaves, and if women, only barely. Graduate Coordinator: Katelyn Stoler 236 Cohen Hall, 249 South 36th Street University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304 (215) 573-0250 kastoler@upenn.edu You can do it all in writing. You want to have a sense of anxiety about this character, and that there are going to be layers we see unfolded. From the Latin verb complicare, it means to fold together. No, we dont think of that root when we call someone complicated, but its what we mean: that theyre compound, several things folded into one, difficult to unravel, pull apart, understand. To fit them into his shorter 10-syllable line, Fitzgerald simply used more lines. As well as The Aeneid, the prolific and versatile Ruden has produced wonderfully original versions of Aeschylus (The Oresteia), as well as Aristophanes, Apuleius, Petronius, Augustine and more. Her mothers experience as a female academic, Wilson said, over lunch the next day at a noisy bistro, was tied up with her colleagues in Somerville, the womens college where she taught. The media wouldnt have cared otherwise. "[18], Wilson has noted that being a woman did not predetermine her critical work as a scholar, reader or translator, and has expressed discomfort with the media reception of her work in terms of gender, since it tends to obscure her primary goals (such as the use of regular meter and attention to sound), and risks erasing the work of other female Homerists and female translators. Course readings Week Author Reading Assignment Week 1 Hesiod Introduction to oral poetry; Hesiod Theogony Week 2 Homer Iliad: The Lay of the Wrath of Achilles Iliad books 1-8; focus on 1-6 Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College, B.A., and Corpus Christi College, M.Phil.) Celebrated for her vivid and lyrical translation of Homer's The Odyssey, Wilson will read from new work currently in progress: translations of Homer's Iliad and Oedipus . The words are short, mostly monosyllables. The subtle sewing through of the fittingly wavelike W-words in the first half (wandered wrecked where worked) and the stormy S-words that knit together the second half, marrying the waves to the storm in which this man will suffer, made the terse injunctions to the muse that frame this prologue to the poem (Tell me about and Find the beginning) seem as if they might actually answer the puzzle posed by Homers polytropos and Odysseuss complicated nature. Iliad remains not only among the greatest adventure stories ever told but also one of the most compelling meditations on the human condition ever written. : One trap for translators lurks in the poems first line, where its hero is called, untranslatably, polytropos the cunning hero (Lombardo) or the man of twists and turns (Fagles). I think its very interesting thats still with us. [1] In 2017 she became the first woman to publish a translation of Homer 's Odyssey into English. Odysseus, after slaying the suitors, tells his son, Telemachus, to kill the women. [5] Wilson's parents divorced shortly before she went to college. I am learning it in a whole new way with the Iliad. now gives us a complete Homer for our generation. To listen in full, and to all our Close Readings series, sign up here: lrb.me/closereadings But even for atheists, lesbians or women who just dont feel that way about Virgil or Homer, the position of being a woman translating one of these dead, white men creates a strange and potentially productive sense of intimate alienation. The works of dead, white elite men have largely been translated by living, white elite men. Biography. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. But to consult Wilsons 60 some predecessors, living and dead, is to find that consensus has been hard to come by. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. I remember that being one of the big questions I had to start off with.. Victorian classical scholar Jane Harrison. Only last year came this new English translation by Emily Wilson, an American academic and allegedly the first woman to translate Homer into English. "She explained what lessons we might take fromThe Iliad, and why the epic remains so compelling to the 'emo teenager'in all of us." In Wilsons hands, this exciting and often horrifying work now gallops at a pace befitting its best battle scenes, roaring with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, and the anguished cries of dying men. Some of these plays Antigone and the Sophoclean Electra in particular could be moulded to fit repressive contemporary ideals of womanhood, since their heroines demonstrate selfless devotion to dead male family members. Prins gives a nuanced response to this central question. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. The spell of Greek, for Virginia Woolf and many women of her generation, lay in its near-unintelligibility: it was a language that drew attention to the foreign element that is present in any language and thus facilitated a shift away from Victorian poetics. We are in a bull market, especially in the US, for new translations of classical texts. Like every translator, Wilson brings out some features more clearly than others. Department Colloquium: Emily Wilson (Penn) "Iliad 24: A Reading from My Translation" Thursday, November 4, 2021 - 4:45pm to 6:15pm 402 Cohen Hall and also on Zoom, registration below. She later noted that Seneca is an interesting subject because "he's so precise in articulating what it means to have a very, very clear vision of the good life and to be completely unable to follow through on living the good life." For the love of whatever please stop asking, it's legit distressing. Those are the four? We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Its very easy to pronounce a French word wrong. But with Latin, Wilson found an instant home. translating the fairly neutral word used of Odysseus's hanged slave-girls as 'whores'. This year marks the publication of the first female translation of five of Plutarchs Roman Lives (by Mensch, who has also translated Arrian, Herodotus and five of Plutarchs Greek Lives). [{"displayPrice":"$39.95","priceAmount":39.95,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"39","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"95","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"howbeAbyvyZt3%2FiuXK3k59i2WNxhPWm%2BbYk%2B5hHLIgbb2rAzR6FDfPN0UACm67FfKRZWTS%2F8GhmiECMLjTDyn7Rv%2FmCJqaFFnHaN8JKkKo%2BbuPibAeXBAg%2F%2BSCfADCc4Tcz1x0vvaWY3mSxBDtqz2g%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW"}]. It took away a whole level of shame., As an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford, Wilson studied classics and philosophy. The Odyssey (trans. I find this to be a very good translation, into modern English. Norgates of many a turn; George Musgraves tost to and fro by fate; the Rev. Early arguments about translation were over the Old Testament. You have all this information, and you can regurgitate, in the sense that you can strategize to translate an English sentence or a Latin sentence. I never had a female mentor in classics. Still, the appeal of classics as a discipline was profound, particularly the way that Greek drama presented great emotional tumult. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. , ISBN-10 Introduced by: Amy Stolls. The classicist Emily Wilson has given Homers epic a radically contemporary voice. $39.95. The Iliad and Odyssey are composed in a long dactylic line (tumpety-tumpety-tum) thats poorly suited to the natural rhythms of English. I just felt like I wanted to spend a little bit longer with Euripides.. I partly just want to shake them and make them see that all translations are interpretations. Most of the criticism Wilson expects, she says, will come from a digging in of the heels: Thats not what it says in the dictionary, and therefore it cant be right! And if you put down anything other than whats said in the dictionary, then, of course, you have to add a footnote explaining why, which means that pretty much every line has to have a footnote. So do the breezy complacency of Menelaus, the innocence of Nausicaa, the gruff decency of the swineherd Eumaeus. Zeus is the poems prevailing god, and what men do, or are willing to do, in love and war and in the friendships that arise in war and its losses, are the poems preoccupations. She wept for her own husband, who was right next to her. Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. Its imagined as a subset of outreach. Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British classicist and the Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. 4.74.7 out of 5 stars(732) Audible Audiobook $0.00$0.00$44.49$44.49 Free with Audible trial Available instantly Kindle $15.99$15.99$19.99$19.99 Available instantly Hardcover Other format: Paperback The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson - translator, et al. Wilson knew that if she was being smart, she ought to focus on something understudied, like Plutarch. Im not a believer, Wilson told me, but I find that there is a sort of religious practice that goes along with translation. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. W. W. Norton & Company. It is also true, less obviously, of the available translations into English of ancient Greek and Roman texts, most of which are still created by classicists. As Wilson spoke, I recalled a little formula by the American critic Guy Davenport about the difference between Homers two poems: The Iliad is a poem about force; the Odyssey is a poem about the triumph of the mind over force. Wilson was parsing the nature of that triumph, embedded in the poems very first adjective, a difference in mind that would make for a difference in Odysseuss nature, both as a warrior and as a husband. Publisher That goes to what this translation is aiming to do in terms of an immersive reading experience and conveying a whole narrative. Its not like he ever translated Homer. Emily Wilson) Norton (2017) ISBN: 0393089053 Books can be purchased online through the University of Chicago Bookstore. The Odyssey Appearances @EmilyRCWilson Scholia About Wilson Contact Me Contact Form. Many of the most dedicated (such as Pamela Mensch, Sarah Ruden, Caroline Alexander and Josephine Balmer) have no institutional affiliation and are thus free from the pressure to produce work that counts for tenure. In compensation we get moments of surprising lyricism: the Ethiopians, who live between the sunset and the dawn; a sea gull wetting its whirring wings; seals whose breath smells sour / from gray seawater. Wilson has a fine ear, as when her Penelope waves away a compliment: The deathless gods destroyed my looks that day / the Greeks embarked for Troy. Notice the interplay of d, l and g, interwoven like the threads on the queens loom. Although you can understand, if not condone, how murderous rage at a translator might arise if a believer supposed a sacred text to have been desecrated by a translators hand, it is somewhat surprising that similar vehemence can greet translations of secular canonical texts. I must confess, I bogged down about halfway through reading this, one of the iconic works of Western literature. f you look up the subject heading female classicists in the large research library catalogue at the university where I teach, a grand total of five books pop up of which two are separate editions of, Innovative, stylish versions of Greek tragedies Anne Carson. [7] Her next book, The Death of Socrates (2007), examines Socrates' execution. Homers hexameters run from 13 to 18 syllables. [2], Wilson "comes from a long line of academics",[2] including both her parents, A. N. Wilson[3] and Katherine Duncan-Jones,[4] her uncle, and her maternal grandparents, including Elsie Duncan-Jones. It is about the broadest of human inheritances: our constant awareness of all that we will lose, are losing, have lost. This is a short version of the episode. At the center of each of Homers epics is a warrior. Not all female-translated texts are marketed as such; the Amazon listing of Menschs The Age of Caesar lists Plutarch and James Romm (the classicist who wrote the footnotes) as the primary authors. We feel sadness on both sides when Odysseus sleeps with the nymph Calypso, not wanting her / though she still wanted him. We feel sympathy for Helen, and even for Odysseus slave women, executed for sleeping with the enemy or as Wilson puts it, the things the suitors made them do with them. (This goes further than the Greek, but not further than is allowable.). Why would female classicists even want to translate these dead white men? Learn more. Emily Wilson 2021. Please try again. Basically, it's the first time I'm reading The Odyssey without dozing off on every other page. THE ODYSSEY By Homer Translated by Emily Wilson 582 pp. It took some time and chapters before I finally knew who the main characters were. Professor Emily Wilson, Classical Studies and Comparative Literature, "Iliad Translation In Progress: A reading." A dramatic reading of two early books of the poem, in current in-progress iambic pentameter verse translation, followed by Q and A. Thursday, November 7, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, room 402 : Greek, Latin and English Tragic Survival. (In fact, a handful of women are buried among the classicists; one can find here several studies of Victorian classical scholar Jane Harrison, including a fine one by Beard.). Often they are long, rolling words: polyphloisboio thalasses, the much-thundering sea, or rhododaktylos eos, rosy-fingered dawn. Wilsons short line preserves some, but others vanish or survive only as adverbs (pensively Penelope sat down). Wilson: Im grateful for the question. The story is so good/intense it ruined my life for a solid week. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Emily Wilson is a professor in the Department of Classical Studies and chair of the program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Wilson: I was unknown before I publishedThe Odyssey, and then suddenly I had a readership. However, Prins principal interest is not womens social, sexual and political fight for liberation, but rather their attempt to negotiate constraints and freedom on the page. It could be that hes the turner.. is professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Among modern renderings hers is perhaps closest to Robert Fitzgeralds 1961 version. Now we have an excellent new translation of the epic by the British classicist Emily Wilson. This article was amended on 10 July 2017 to give Diane Arnson Svarliens full name. One might assume optimistically that things have changed. My colleagues told me: You really shouldnt be doing that kind of thing before tenure. 180 Dr Emily Wilson @EmilyRCWilson From their conversation: Guernica: [The] Timesreferred to you as the first woman to translateThe Odyssey, and I know many other outlets have really focused on this too. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time. And with formulaic language stripped away, it is the characters and their interactions that take center stage. Pre-order Price Guarantee! Ruden once commented that women are good at translating classics because it puts them in a typically feminine position of abjection, always yearning for an eternally absent male figure: its like developing a relationship with God. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Of the 60 or so answers to the polytropos question to date, the 36 given above couldnt be less uniform (the two dozen I omit repeat, with minor variations, earlier solutions); what unites them is that their translators largely ignore the ambiguity built into the word theyre translating. I'm posting this review because Amazon keeps emailing me asking how many stars I would give the Iliad and every time I see that email come up I just think "oh my god stop asking me this book ripped my soul to shreds and rendered me void of any spirit for a week PLEASE DON'T REMIND ME." They knew how much was at stake, not only for their status as intellectuals, but for their artistic and literary vision. I had enjoyed Fitzgerald's verse translation of The Aenied as a result of which I bought this verse translation of the Iliad. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. So were her lovely cheeks dissolved with tears. Emily Wilsons translation of Homers Odyssey will be published in the autumn by Norton. Wed 22 Aug 2018 02.29 EDT Last modified on Tue 28 Aug 2018 11.53 EDT. Bought in good faith. Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. Greek maenads were the model for a new, uncorseted way of moving, leaping and dancing. Amazing read. When Telemachus visits Menelaus, a slave girl brings him bread and many canaps. (Well, there is a wedding in progress.) Armed with a sharp, scholarly rigour, she has produced a translation that exposes centuries of masculinist readings of the poem.. Yes, there are boring passages about How Many Boats Are Present but there's also an intensely emotional and gripping (gripping like the narrative makes it impossible not to feel like your heart is being crushed in a vice) climax and conclusion. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2019. Professor Emily Wilson, Classical Studies and Comparative Literature, "Iliad Translation In Progress: A reading." A dramatic reading of BOOK 1 of the poem, in current in-progress iambic pentameter verse translation, followed by Q and A. Thursday, November 7, 4:30-6:00 p.m. . Polytropos, Wilson said, in her deep, buoyant voice, pointing to the fifth word u of the 12,110-line epic poem that I had come to her office at the University of Pennsylvania to discuss. One of the things I struggled with, Wilson continued, sounding more exhilarated than frustrated as she began to unpack polytropos, the first description we get of Odysseus, is of course this whole question of whether he is passive the much turning or much turned right? wanted a Greek copy of the Pentateuch the five books of Moses for the Library of Alexandria. 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